Saturday, October 11, 2025

impressions: Europe

No menstrual products in restrooms 

Few usb charging ports

Each person gets their own pizza

Fork and knife pizza



Barcelona

Primitive graffiti

Catalan is #1
No announcements at airport

Vienna
No customs entering
Quiet transit (trains, "buses")
Honor system transit
Bathrooms like Germany - top to bottom doors, toilet brush
Bathroom door / occupancy are an issue lol
No menstrual product dispensers
Un obvious sidewalks, so low
Blind accessible crosswalk
Expensive, $ even for some churches
Clean

Bratislava
Lots of youth out at night
Different architecture
Very walkable old town
More uphill than downhill, lol
Sanitary bags in restrooms, even hotel restroom
Self seating at restaurants
Restaurants open at noon
Portion weight, drink size in ml
Salad comes after pizza
Bidet / towel warmer
Frequent transit at least on old town
Clean


Budapest
Baths
Bit more run down
Mostly Honor system transit
More pressed penny machines
More panhandlers
More smokers
Many trash cans
Narrow transit seats
Paid restrooms - can use cc

Croatia
Very salty breads
Fluffier pizza dough / crusts
Actual queen beds

Split
Rubber ducky shops
Electric cart things that people stand in the front of to maneuver 

Dubrovnik
super clear water
too many tourists, sheesh

Ireland
Round abouts everywhere
Friendly

Belfast
Yellow light flash before turning green
Walk indicators on same side street

Dublin
lots of immigrants, but still very predominantly white
all double decker buses
a lot of puke in the ground
Towel warmer
More homeless
Beer culture


Commonly advertised drinks:
Aperol sprit, campari, hugo
Tequila sunrise, negroni, cibra Libre, gin tonic
Ling island iced tea, mojito,